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terms of the watchman jption per war two dollars payable in : f r ce ' bul ii n ot p aitl >Â« advance two dollars ; 1 i '.:'â€¢, v cts will l>e cuarged Â» nd '. .,. xt s inserted at 1 for the first and 25 cts â€¢ a 5u i 3 equent insertion court orders cliirged !'- ,' '! cl higher than these rates a liberal deduc ",,.!".,, ll'l u!l " adve'rtise by the year â€¢' , "' il . e editors must be post paid i:i n 'â– * â– ' " _ yjfe carolina watchman ; m p\1i;ks of north carolixa ' a read this you who raise from three to fifteen bushels of corn to the acre read ! per haps vou won't believe it it does look most incredible but there is no donbt of its truth perhaps you will say ah kpntuckv laud is better than ours there â€¢ n0 jouht of that either ; but it has been n ir so by nice cultivation you are as telligent as the kentucky farmer and the means for manufacturing manure jeep ploughing c are also within your \ reach and yet many of you have your barns on the top of a hill with neither pit nor peri f r saving manure how many of vou scrape over your fields with half moon shovels and loosen just about as much soil a a 2 00 1 ra ' n can wash off clean but it is not worth svhile to talk and those who believe nothing they see in newspa pers had as well not read the following : asi'i wishing yield of corn we clip the following from the list of premiums aic awarded at the lexington ky fair joen yield per acre of ten acres ; pre mium to lames matson of bourbon ; certificate to peter pean of clarke â€” miie entries the following are the quantities raised j 1 by the several persons who contended for . the prize : bbls bush qt j matson of bourbon 37 4 1 per acre p e iei pi hi 'â€¢: clarke 37 4 " s ii chew of fay lie 27j j hotchi raft of bourbon 33 " a vanraeter of fayette 21 34 " a hodges ol bourbon 21 2 e w hockaday of clarke 20 dr.b.w dudley of fayette 20 " ii varnon of bourbon 11 3 " thirty-seven barrels are equal to 185 bushels of shelled corn consequently mr matson s field has produced the as tonishing quantity of 189 bushels and one quart per acre or 1,890 bushels and 10 quarts upon 10 acres this surpasses anything we ever heard of in the way of i raising corn mr pean it will be seen j fell behind mr m only one quart to the ! acre southern direct trade with england the new york herald states that sev eral persons from the southern states went out in the last steamer for the pur pose of making some new commercial ar rangements in england by which a direct trade may be opened between the south and the trade of europe " southern capi talists are largely interested in this move ment and their agents will effect doubt less some measures of great importance the cause of such enterprise remarks the herald on the part of the south is to be traced to the belligerant att itude of the northern states which are chasing a po litical abstraction to end in a most de plorable overthrow of our commerce the people of the south are quite active in deeds as those of the north are in words ; and this action on their part is but the sign and symptom of other movements which will assuredly ensue if the anti slavery agitation is continued among us we are sure of it â€” richmond times the right course a savannah correspondent ol the bal timore sun says i may mention as one of the fruits of the slavery agitation that a coasting schooner was launched in charleston a few days ago which is the first of a series of vessels which are to be built in that state for the purpose of ren dering her people independent of north ern shippers a similar enterprise is now in progress in this city a number of gentlemen here are engaged in building a steamer for the florida trade all the ma terials of which are to be of southern growth and manufacture every stick of timber every pound of iron and article of furniture as well as the mechanics who are building it belong to the south and to this state especially this is but the be ginning of the end we rejoice to hear it go ahead ev ery vessel thus built every blow thus struck for southern industry is worth an army with banners â€” rich republican the fugitive slave billâ€”pre sident fillmore should the fugitive slave bill be re sisted at the north and the authorities of he united states be overpowered it will be a clear case of nullification of an act of congress passed in compliance with the constitution president fillmore has ta ken the opinion of the attorney general of the united states who declares the law to be constitutional and the president showed his concurrence in that opinion hy signing the bill what then will be the duty of the president ? simply this if the law is successfully resisted or nullified it will be the duty of the president to or der the army and navy to vindicate the supremacy of the constitution and the laws the army would march into the riotous cities and the navy would block ade their harbors if these forces should prove insufficient to enforce the law the president will have to call for volunteers and the south will send as many as he wants we can therefore desist from using words of persuasion with the north ern rebels and get ready to lick them into good behaviour pennsylvania went in in a horn upon whiskey once and she | the carolina watchman j j bruner â€¢ ) > " keep a check upon all vocr editor 6f proprietor ) rulers ( new series do this axd llbeetv is safe < ' gen'l harrison ( volume vii number 2g salisbury n c thursday november 7 1850 had better take care how she mounts the nigger now or ihe coat tails of some of her quakers will stand out as straight as their fronts â€” petersburg intelligencer from the fayettevilie observer the prospect more and more gloomy our readers know with what strong af fection we cling to ihe union and how entirely we are convinced lhat the peace the prosperity the power and the glory of all its parts de pend on preserving il unbroken indeed the very existence of a system of republican gov ernment is involved in the existence of the un ion the worst species of war that ever pre vailed â€” a war of fanaticism on the one hand and ol outraged rights on the other â€” will in , evjiahly and instantly result from dissolution we leave the imagination to fill up the picture of horrors which will follow even now whilst the union exists it is a constant topic of dis cussion which section will have the power to , injure the other the most by separation ! if it be so now what will be the feeling and the act when we are divided ? entertaining such views we have been the | earnest and unwavering advocate of compro mise and conciliation we have been the more anxious on the subject because we thought that the only disunionist were at the south â€” that any reasonable plan of adjustment would satis fy he usually cool and calculating people of the north â€” and that it was here alone that the dan ger existed we rejoiced at the adoption by congress of what we deemed on the whole a j reasonable compromise ; and we trusted that good feeling would be restored and so it . would have been hut for the most unexpected : and outrageous conduct of many people at the north they have set about to nullify the on ! ly one of the series of acts which has the least practical effect in favor of the south they repudiate the solemn obligation of the consti tution and of the law passed in pursuance of it that law disclosed the fact that thousands , of fugitives have been harbored in the north | em cities to say nothing of those scattered about the country these have been allowed to arm themselves â€” have been encouraged to j resist to the death the execution of the law â€” | the consequence is that in two cases only i have fugitives been restored under the law â€” hut two out of the thousands who are notori ously harbored among them among he recent signs which tend to a fa tal issue of this question we may enumerate the following : â€” al the presbyterian synod held at pittsburg penn on the 17th instant a memorial from the session and congregation from pittsburg and beaver was presented praying the synod lo give an expression of opinion against the fugitive slave law the memorial denounces it as injurious a motion was made to post pone he matter indefinitely which was lost â€” only one in favor of postponing ' the rev proctor smith campbell and others made flaming speeches against the law they pronounced it a subversion of morality and oppressive they said they would go to the penitentiary before obeying such a law â€” great excitement prevails in the convention a committee composed of a majority of per sons opposed to the law was appointed to re port on the subject here we have a large body of ministers of the gospel and elders of a church throwing he weigh of their powerful influence against the constitution and the laws ! we suppose they ihink they are doing god service by such conduct ; and so we suppose did the men who hanged the gamblers al vicksburg a few years ago in our opinion the pidshurg presbytery is guilty of he greater sin of the two again : â€” a party of thirteen fugitive slaves passed through tamaqua schuylkill county pa on the 19ih instant en route for canada the next day the were followed by two individuals who engaging the assistance of a constable followed on in heir pursuit the pursuers succeeded in overtaking the slaves at wilksbarre ; but owing to tlie strong expression of feeling manifested by the people in their fa vor they were forced to beat a hasty retreat the constable was induced o fob low hem under the impression that they were horse-thieves but on learning otherwise he refused lo render any further co-operation â€” phila ledger once more : â€” at philadelphia on the 18th inst a large crowd of colored persons assem bled in front of the court house to await the decision of judge grier in the case of the ne gro man named henry garnet arrested under the fugitive law and claimed by mr thomas p jones of cecil county md after a patient examination of the case the judge decided that ihe claimant had failed lo make out his case and accordingly discharged the prisoner on coming out of the court house garnpt was received by his colored friends with joyous exultations bordering on a riot ; so much so hat he mayor begged them to desist they disobeyed his request when the police interfered and a violent collision en sued between the officers of the law and the negroes in ihe light one of the police had his finger nearly bitten off by a colored man finally the crowd was dispersed and three of the ringleaders were arrested and held to bail in one thousand dollars each to answer for a violation of the law a committee then proceeded lo canvass the city to get assistance in the publication of cer tain incendiary resolutions regarding the fugi tive slave law which the responsible papprs refuse lo publish considering ihem riotous in tendency and subversive of law and order the following we copy from the new york express : â€” " another case under the fug it ice laics â€” a southern man at pittsburg who came lo arrest a slave named jones who swore that the ne gro whom he pointed out had been his slave two years since but had run away who claim ed his delivery up lo him by ihe commission er was thwarled in his purpose under the law he got hold of the wrong man for all the old residents in pittsburg knew lhat jones had lived in that city for over twenty years the claimant was committed to prison for perjury j and jones went on his way rejoicing after laying in jail four days the claimant was re ! leased on 81000 hail we think it highly probable that these " old | residents in pittsburg are of ihe class whose i testimony can be bought very low and that the bona fide owner of the negro has been de frauded out of his right and incarcerated in jail besides so also in the philadelphia case probably " the claimant failed to make out his case he may thank his stars that he too was not committed for perjury as a warn ing to all persons in like cases offending the washington union says â€” " we confess we were grieved and surpris ed to read in a respectable ohio paper that the democratic members of congress elected from that state woold probably support the re j peal of the fugitive slave law we can hardly j permit ourselves to believe lhat it is possible ; j we fancv there must be some mistake on the subject the case at detroit of wbich we have here tofore given some account was finally settled | by the owner getting 300 after paying the i expenses of the suit this sum was perhaps balf the value of his property and it was j raised by subscription " not a real noisy aboli tionist subscribing a dollar the whig convention at ulica n y â€” a convention called solely because the former convention at syracuse had endorsed seward's course and for the purpose of repudiating thai j endorsement â€” met and adjourned without say j ing one word about ihe fugitive slave law j though it approved of the other compromise measures this omission is a fearful sign that the law cannot be sustained in that great state another of equally evil portent is the letter of mr hunt the candidate of that convention in which he declares that the law could not have been well considered and needs essential modification â€” a declaration at war with the well known fact that the bill was before con gress for months was fully discussed and ma ny votes taken on proposed amendments the conclusions to which we are forced by these and many other signs at the north con trary to our original and strongly cherished hope and belief are that the law cannot be sus j iained ; â€” lhat even if it be not repealed it j cannot be enforced in the few cases where the courts and officers will do their doty mobs black and white stand ready to defeat their action or to deter the owner from invoking it well what then is to be done ? we do not i hesitate to say lhat the union cannot stand '-, and ought not to stand if this the only one of , j the series of measures which is of any real '> value to the south is either repealed or nulli ! tied to say nothing of the baseness of al ! lowing a series of acts to be passed with ihe | understanding that they were each and all part of a compromise of conflicting claims and then i that the stronger party should stand to all that had been conceded to itself and repeal the only one it conceded lo the other parly â€” lo say no thing of this the south has a constitutional right to this law and to its faithful execution â€” a right which neither its honor nor its interest will permit ii to relinquish at any hazard even of disunion itself it is with great reluctance lhat we have ad mitted the above conclusions thpy are how ever forced upon us by the state of things at the north and it is our duty to let our readers at the south see as we see it what is going ' on there if southern papers have any leaders ! at the north we would add lhat it is due lo them to be warned ot the fatal tendency of their movements since the above was in type we are glad to i see that a movement is on foot in new york j to hold a great meeting of all classes and all â– parties to express the feeling of lhat city in favor of a faithful observance of the law this ! step is advocated by the express courier and i enquirer and mirror whig papers the jour 1 nal of commerce and herald locofoco and i is bitterly opposed by the tribune whig ab olitionist and the evening post locofoco : abolitionist which threatens those merchants who sign the call for the meeting wilh the loss of the custom of the free soil people of the north ! but the proposition meets with such general fkvor thai in the whole length of broad street only two persons refused lo sign it in exchange place only one and in pine street only two total jive in three business streets three more were met with in a portion of broadway which was canvassed by the same gentleman this is certainly gratifying but as to new york city we never had any doubt the peo pie of that city are too well informed ot the actual condition of things at the south to be humbugged by brawling fanatics they have too many personal friends at the south to al low themselves to be arrayed against us on so vital a point and their own interest the pros perity of their great city is too largely depen dent on continued friendly intercourse wilh the south to admit of a moment's doubt as to iheir course it is the interior of that state and nearly the whole of the other northern states that seem unsound and bent on forcing a re peal or nullification of the law and along with it a repeal of the union ! northern locofocos â€” the only true friends of the south â€” the following sy nopsis of recent demonstrations of locofoco sentiment at he north furnishes a singular commentary upon the praise which has been lavished upon the alleged loyalty of the north ern democracy il shows that however treach erous and disloyal are many northern whig treachery and disloyally are by no means con fined to lhat party but on the contrary they are vices equally fashionable if not more in vogue among northern democrats it shows also facts for which we have long contended lhat for the defeat of the abolitionists and for re spect to the consiifuiional rights of ihe south we must look exclusively to neither party but to the moderate men of all parties the new york post one of the leading or gans of the united democracy of that stale regretting lhat " the act of congress mutilat i ing new meiico aud offering texas ten mill ; ions is beyond the chance of repeal counsels the imposition of ihe wilmot proviso and says : " the laws organizing the territories of new mexico and utah are happily open to i amendment new mexico should be admitted i immediately as a slate wbich will put an end to agitation in that quarter the prohibition i of slavery in the territory of utah will quench a fire-brand which will never cease to blaze as , long as that question is undecided in addition to this evidence we quote from ! the address of a democratic leader who makes , the following urgent appeal whilst he gives an j historical statement no doubt perfectly new lo ! ; southern democrats mr tompkins loquitur i " are you prepared fellow democrats to ; show your disregard of truth honor and com mon humanity ? for did you not in 1848 pro claim that you would advocate the cause of 4 free-soil for free labor and freemen v will you now violate ihe sacred principle of truth j by action at variance wilh lhat assertion ?" we find next a nice account of a democratic j convention in wisconsin after nominating \ " a free-soil candidate for congress the eon vention passed a number of resolutions in fa , vor of free soil internal improvements land \ reform cheap postage homestead exemption free-lrade and direct taxation the conven tion also expressed itself in favor of thomas hart benton for the next presidency and in in opposition to the fugitive slave law add to his tbe secret nomination of martin j van buren for the presidency and the deter j mination ol all the recently elected locofoco | members of congress from ohio to repeal the fugitive slave law and one would think that unscrupulous as ihey generally are locofoco presses would cease their attempts to manu facture capital out of whig abolition sympa thies one would think that they would now at least follow the advice of the union and drop party warfare until the union is saved fayettevilie observer from the fayettecille observer look out for the scoundrel owing to the great extent of our territory and the sparseness of our population the most ordinary rogues are often able to impose suc cessfully on the communily but the plausible and accomplished seldom fail under any cir cumstances to practice successfully their dis honest arts one of the most specious and art ful of the profession has just been compelled to leave this place where he has been staying two weeks and deceiving many persons he calls himself lieut don carlos valencia of ihe 4th regiment lancers of puebla mexico claims to be son of col valencia and nephew of gen valencia of mexico he professes to have served through the whole of the last war and claims to have received several honorable wounds his appearance is very prepossess ing his carriage erect and military his dress outwardly neat his manners especially in the company of ladies gentle refined and insinua ting he is about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high has rather pale or dark complexion black hair and eyes good teeth small feet and hands and wore when here a moustache and small impe rial he speaks english fluently and with a foreign accent and is about 25 or 26 years old though he says he is only 21 he has three scars near and under right side of the ( chin which he says are bullet marks and a j bullet scar on the left thigh he seems to suf j ter from hemorrage of the lungs caused as he i said until detected by an unhealed wound in one of them â€” he also affects to be deranged ;â€¢ at times and counterfeits admirably the ravings i of insanity he also uses opium freely he i is remarkably fluent and ready in conversation â€¢ and quite interesting as a narrator of adven i tures he was fully identified just before he j left as the same person who as an exiled cu â€¢ ban insinuated himself into the confidence of some of the good people of newark del and l afterwards absconded wiih a watch and money j he is an exceedingly plausible and artful fel ! low and well fitted to impose on even the least i credulous he wore while here a pair of ! black pantaloons with a red and gold stripe on the outside of each leg let the public look ', out for him he was started to raleigh from here and probably go to charleston as he had i tickets lo that place editors of newspapers < will do well to introduce this enterprising gen tlemen to the public fayetteville by the above it will be seen that some mem bers of our community have been most decent ly humbugged we were at the market house one morning trying to buy a iripe or a shin of beef when an ancient carriage came along wilh two mules drawing it and a number of trunks be hind ; the whole looking like such a thing as a traveller might expect to meet on the " pam pas of south america inside were too la dies and two gentlemen tbe vehicle halted at the market bouse a few moments and the passengers were accosted by a reverend gen tleman well known for his urbanity all that was not very strange but during the day as we were pacing along the street we heard some urchins talking about " a live mexi can that was at mrs brown's hotel and soon af ter we discovered apparently a young spaniard ! with mustache and other fixings a-la-militarie and three very amiable citizens of our town in a very pleasant conversation playing the a greeable we passed on and said nothing sunday morning going to the post office we saw quite a bevy of the young " bloods about favetteville all gathered around the live mex ican and he spinning his yarns with great de liberation never wishing to thrust our bumble self in to tbe company of great ones â€” or as the vul gar about here say the big bugs â€” we did not dare approach him hut went up lo our of ! fice window and satisfied our curiosity with a peep it soon became apparent that the young man in moustaches was no bug eater as there was no one to let ihe people know how great a man he was he did not lei his extreme mod i esty at all interfere with the business of making i himself known : and it was soon noised over i the town lhat a man had arrived who was " some pumpkins â€” worth a million and a half of dollars â€” had fought his way through the whole of the mexican war and sought " the humble reputaiion even at the cannon's mouth he could beat othello all lo sma?h telling of his " hair breadth scapes in ihe imminent deadly breach â€” â€¢' the baffles seiges fortunes lhat he had passed he was a protege of gen scott also and had lived in his family since the war and our wonder-loving cits like the gentle desdemona " these things to hear would seri ously incline there was no one like don carlos merchants would leave their counting houses clerks their counters doctors ibeir pa tients lawyers iheir clients and militia majors their studies lo congregate and sil with him at the corner of ihe hole or gallant him lo see the arsenal c at last it become rumored bat the young gen tleman was in love with a young heiress on a visit to our town love soon cracked his brain and he was confined to bis bed the doctors were called in who examined his wounds and his other dangerous symptoms and pronounced him in a very precarious situation he would sometimes rave like a maniac and sometimes whine like a love-sick maiden every morning you could hear some one of the enraptured citizens enquiring â€” " how is the don this morning ?" oh says one who had set up all night with bim " he is very bad oft he was out of his bead all night last night yes thinks i and out of pocket too i guess i " well what does ihe doctor think 1 has he dressed his wound " no he wouldn't allow it to be dressed nor j would he take his medicine tlic doctor says : lie is very bad off " poor fellow does be still go on in that crazy way ?" " yes ; he is all the time talking like be was i in his regiment giving orders to bis men â€” then speaking to his superior officer â€” then he will draw his sword to fight a duel with somebody he thought insulted him he would rush at a i carpet bag and plunge his cane at it then ; be would call pedro and tell him to black his boots sometimes he would spit up blood and then go into spasms and the doctor would think he would die " poor fellow this game was played for a week and ' our hero visited a very amiable family one ! evening and was taken dick there there lay the strength of the game of course the j family taking his rank family and fortune into 1 consideration paid him every attention and as â– he grew worse he deemed it lo be prudent to | make a will in which he willed all his effects j to " his soul's adored at last on saturday night the bubble burst ! ed and very extensivelybespattered with its vile ! contents our hospitable friends who had been j so anxious lo sustain the reputation of fayette ville for hospitality and attention lo distin j guished strangers the above extract from the observer gives ' the denouementto this most ridiculous affair it was equal to the old play of " a bold stroke for a wife the don played the part of colonel feign â€¢ well " up to nature as shakespeare says â€” his motto was â€” " now fame title and fortune come in play a thirty thousand pound girl leads the way to crown the joke after the fellow wa9 ex i posed and while the duped ones were venting â€¢ their anathemas on his " devoted head he i was asked by a very venerable old gentleman i if he came to fayettevilie thinking the peopu i here were green the man sniggered in his sleeve and told ( them he should not have come had he not been invited we must however do our fellow citizens the i justice to say that others have been duped by j this millionaire as effectually as they were fay carolinian work for november in the south this is a busy month in all the cotton and sugar states as the laborors are 1 proverbially careless we bespeak most | earnestly the attention of masters and '- managers to keep a sharp lookout for fire j in no other way can you be insured a gainst the entire destruction of a whole ! crop use no other light about the gin bouse than a wire lamp have your gin ; provided with water boxes that prevent ', all danger from friction in a few years ! you will be able to buy gins that are su â€¢ perior to the whitney gin and entirely , free from danger of taking fire they are ; already invented cotton presses â€” have you ever thought that the presses now in general use are ; not what they should be ? there are bet ter ones look to it we can cite you to one planter col hampton of south carolina whose bales never need repress ing it would cost you no more to do them right in the first place than it does to make the miserable packages you now do then how much you would save cotton baskets â€” what are you going to do when all your basket timber is ex hausted as it soon will be â€” in fact is in '' some places ? will you send north for them well we can supply you but you had better plant and grow timber â€” ihe osier willow for instance look to it this month cotton seeds â€” do not neglect this all important matter look what the proutt and hogan seed has come to by careful se lection there is no need for you to pay a dime a seed to get a good article if you will only select it yourself a few years feeding slock pea fields â€” this is the month more than all others that cat , tie and hogs die from eating peas be careful and feed your hogs well with corn and salt slops before turning them in â€” j ' salt and feed your cattle well do not turn hungry cattle upon fresh pea vines if you have not hogs enough this year to make your meat look out now lor a sup ply before they are put up to fatten you can raise pork better than you can buy it with cotton fruit trees â€” do not forget that this is the best month in the year to order fruit frees do not try for a great assortment but just a few of the choicest kinds col carter and dr cloud of macon county ala have growing upon their farms a native winter apple that is perhaps supe rior to any other it is worthy of notice at the south it is probable lhat dr philips of hinds county miss also has it ; at any rate he has got the best assort ment of fruit trees in the south that we know any thing about â€” american agri ulturist speaking of fruit trees we would re mind farmers and others in this part of the country that chakles mock esq of davidson county has a very extensive and valuable variety which he sells on reasonable terms he has for many years been engaged in ihe nursery busi ness â€” takes great pride in it and has spared neither labor nor expense to pre pare himself to meet the demands of the public for fruit trees shrubbery and flow ers his post-office address isfairgrove davidson co n c pumping a lake dry dr j v c smith the editor of the bos ton medical surgical journal who is now on a visit to europe gives an interesting description in his editorial correspondence from holland of the manner in which the lake of haarlem is being drained by steam engines and its water sent to the sea : six miles from amsterdam is the in land lake of haarlem 21 miles long by 11 in width which three hundred years ago was found to he perceptibly increasing by shooting its waters further and further and covering up the land threatening the first commercial port of the realm with destruction by flowing in upon its bank various schemes at that remote epoch was devised by able counsellors to stay the threatening danger three dutch en gineers.of acknowledged ability proposed draining off the water first raising it by wind mills they are entitled lo remem brance from having suggested the plan adopted in 1839 for averting an impend ing calamity seven years since delay being no long er safe a canal was dug around the whole circumference of the lake averaging 200 feet in width by 10 deep three monster engines are housed on the sides of the lake some six or eight miles apart each moving eight monstrous pumps all the pistons are raised at once at every revo lution of the machinery raising l.'i.ooo gallons of water which is emptied into the canal whence it is hastened on by a fourth engine faster than it would otherwise move to the zuyder zee and thus it reach es the sea fifteen miles distant in april 1819 the pumps worked by three of the mightiest steam engines perhaps ever con structed were set in motion and up to this date july 25th have lowered the contents of the lake seven feet by next april it is anticipated that the bottom will be fair ly exposed and all the water conveyed away from this ancient basin all this is executed at the expense of government awful disclosures and sub ornation of perjury on saturday last some very alarming disclosures took place in reference to a concocted plan about to be carried into effect by firing a manufactory situated up town on which was an insurance effected to the amount of 8 lf>,000 : but in fact the stock on the premises would not amount to much over 8'i.0()0 the owner of the premises has heretofore borne an unex ceptionable character which gives the case considerable more importance it seems that as far as we are ahle to ascertain the proprietor of the factory af ter elfecting the insurance proposed to a certain man the plan of firing the premis es for which he was to have 81,00(1 to swear after he property was burned that the amount as represented on the policy of insurance was correct however it was necessary to have a second witness corroborative of the same facts and for that purpose or in order to obtain a wit ness suitable lo their wishes a bill of goods was purchased at a store in maid en lane and the clerk on calling up for the payment of said bill was exhibited the premises and finally the proposition was submitted to him telling him that in the event of a fire he would be wanted to swear that on that day he saw 8()0 bar rels of valuable material amounting to over and about the amount of insurance ; for which service he was o receive 2000 well but said the clerk there appears to be a number of families residing all around and lives may be lost when this inflammable stuff is in flames " no matter for that said ihe proprietor " so much the better suppose thirty or forty lives are lost why the public sympathy will be so great that they will lose all sight of the fire these last cool calculating remarks appeared to chill ihe clerk's veins with horror and after a short period of conversation on the malter the clerk left remarking that he would think of the pre position and let him know he did think of ihe infamous design but instead of en tering into the wicked compact he at once laid the whole facts before the insurance company who we understand are now in vestigating the whole matter the evi dence in the case has been placed before our energetic magistrates md should the testimony make out a case ol felony com ing within the meaning of the statute law a warrant will certainly be issued for the arrest of the guilty parlies â€” m iork herald

terms of the watchman jption per war two dollars payable in : f r ce ' bul ii n ot p aitl >Â« advance two dollars ; 1 i '.:'â€¢, v cts will l>e cuarged Â» nd '. .,. xt s inserted at 1 for the first and 25 cts â€¢ a 5u i 3 equent insertion court orders cliirged !'- ,' '! cl higher than these rates a liberal deduc ",,.!".,, ll'l u!l " adve'rtise by the year â€¢' , "' il . e editors must be post paid i:i n 'â– * â– ' " _ yjfe carolina watchman ; m p\1i;ks of north carolixa ' a read this you who raise from three to fifteen bushels of corn to the acre read ! per haps vou won't believe it it does look most incredible but there is no donbt of its truth perhaps you will say ah kpntuckv laud is better than ours there â€¢ n0 jouht of that either ; but it has been n ir so by nice cultivation you are as telligent as the kentucky farmer and the means for manufacturing manure jeep ploughing c are also within your \ reach and yet many of you have your barns on the top of a hill with neither pit nor peri f r saving manure how many of vou scrape over your fields with half moon shovels and loosen just about as much soil a a 2 00 1 ra ' n can wash off clean but it is not worth svhile to talk and those who believe nothing they see in newspa pers had as well not read the following : asi'i wishing yield of corn we clip the following from the list of premiums aic awarded at the lexington ky fair joen yield per acre of ten acres ; pre mium to lames matson of bourbon ; certificate to peter pean of clarke â€” miie entries the following are the quantities raised j 1 by the several persons who contended for . the prize : bbls bush qt j matson of bourbon 37 4 1 per acre p e iei pi hi 'â€¢: clarke 37 4 " s ii chew of fay lie 27j j hotchi raft of bourbon 33 " a vanraeter of fayette 21 34 " a hodges ol bourbon 21 2 e w hockaday of clarke 20 dr.b.w dudley of fayette 20 " ii varnon of bourbon 11 3 " thirty-seven barrels are equal to 185 bushels of shelled corn consequently mr matson s field has produced the as tonishing quantity of 189 bushels and one quart per acre or 1,890 bushels and 10 quarts upon 10 acres this surpasses anything we ever heard of in the way of i raising corn mr pean it will be seen j fell behind mr m only one quart to the ! acre southern direct trade with england the new york herald states that sev eral persons from the southern states went out in the last steamer for the pur pose of making some new commercial ar rangements in england by which a direct trade may be opened between the south and the trade of europe " southern capi talists are largely interested in this move ment and their agents will effect doubt less some measures of great importance the cause of such enterprise remarks the herald on the part of the south is to be traced to the belligerant att itude of the northern states which are chasing a po litical abstraction to end in a most de plorable overthrow of our commerce the people of the south are quite active in deeds as those of the north are in words ; and this action on their part is but the sign and symptom of other movements which will assuredly ensue if the anti slavery agitation is continued among us we are sure of it â€” richmond times the right course a savannah correspondent ol the bal timore sun says i may mention as one of the fruits of the slavery agitation that a coasting schooner was launched in charleston a few days ago which is the first of a series of vessels which are to be built in that state for the purpose of ren dering her people independent of north ern shippers a similar enterprise is now in progress in this city a number of gentlemen here are engaged in building a steamer for the florida trade all the ma terials of which are to be of southern growth and manufacture every stick of timber every pound of iron and article of furniture as well as the mechanics who are building it belong to the south and to this state especially this is but the be ginning of the end we rejoice to hear it go ahead ev ery vessel thus built every blow thus struck for southern industry is worth an army with banners â€” rich republican the fugitive slave billâ€”pre sident fillmore should the fugitive slave bill be re sisted at the north and the authorities of he united states be overpowered it will be a clear case of nullification of an act of congress passed in compliance with the constitution president fillmore has ta ken the opinion of the attorney general of the united states who declares the law to be constitutional and the president showed his concurrence in that opinion hy signing the bill what then will be the duty of the president ? simply this if the law is successfully resisted or nullified it will be the duty of the president to or der the army and navy to vindicate the supremacy of the constitution and the laws the army would march into the riotous cities and the navy would block ade their harbors if these forces should prove insufficient to enforce the law the president will have to call for volunteers and the south will send as many as he wants we can therefore desist from using words of persuasion with the north ern rebels and get ready to lick them into good behaviour pennsylvania went in in a horn upon whiskey once and she | the carolina watchman j j bruner â€¢ ) > " keep a check upon all vocr editor 6f proprietor ) rulers ( new series do this axd llbeetv is safe < ' gen'l harrison ( volume vii number 2g salisbury n c thursday november 7 1850 had better take care how she mounts the nigger now or ihe coat tails of some of her quakers will stand out as straight as their fronts â€” petersburg intelligencer from the fayettevilie observer the prospect more and more gloomy our readers know with what strong af fection we cling to ihe union and how entirely we are convinced lhat the peace the prosperity the power and the glory of all its parts de pend on preserving il unbroken indeed the very existence of a system of republican gov ernment is involved in the existence of the un ion the worst species of war that ever pre vailed â€” a war of fanaticism on the one hand and ol outraged rights on the other â€” will in , evjiahly and instantly result from dissolution we leave the imagination to fill up the picture of horrors which will follow even now whilst the union exists it is a constant topic of dis cussion which section will have the power to , injure the other the most by separation ! if it be so now what will be the feeling and the act when we are divided ? entertaining such views we have been the | earnest and unwavering advocate of compro mise and conciliation we have been the more anxious on the subject because we thought that the only disunionist were at the south â€” that any reasonable plan of adjustment would satis fy he usually cool and calculating people of the north â€” and that it was here alone that the dan ger existed we rejoiced at the adoption by congress of what we deemed on the whole a j reasonable compromise ; and we trusted that good feeling would be restored and so it . would have been hut for the most unexpected : and outrageous conduct of many people at the north they have set about to nullify the on ! ly one of the series of acts which has the least practical effect in favor of the south they repudiate the solemn obligation of the consti tution and of the law passed in pursuance of it that law disclosed the fact that thousands , of fugitives have been harbored in the north | em cities to say nothing of those scattered about the country these have been allowed to arm themselves â€” have been encouraged to j resist to the death the execution of the law â€” | the consequence is that in two cases only i have fugitives been restored under the law â€” hut two out of the thousands who are notori ously harbored among them among he recent signs which tend to a fa tal issue of this question we may enumerate the following : â€” al the presbyterian synod held at pittsburg penn on the 17th instant a memorial from the session and congregation from pittsburg and beaver was presented praying the synod lo give an expression of opinion against the fugitive slave law the memorial denounces it as injurious a motion was made to post pone he matter indefinitely which was lost â€” only one in favor of postponing ' the rev proctor smith campbell and others made flaming speeches against the law they pronounced it a subversion of morality and oppressive they said they would go to the penitentiary before obeying such a law â€” great excitement prevails in the convention a committee composed of a majority of per sons opposed to the law was appointed to re port on the subject here we have a large body of ministers of the gospel and elders of a church throwing he weigh of their powerful influence against the constitution and the laws ! we suppose they ihink they are doing god service by such conduct ; and so we suppose did the men who hanged the gamblers al vicksburg a few years ago in our opinion the pidshurg presbytery is guilty of he greater sin of the two again : â€” a party of thirteen fugitive slaves passed through tamaqua schuylkill county pa on the 19ih instant en route for canada the next day the were followed by two individuals who engaging the assistance of a constable followed on in heir pursuit the pursuers succeeded in overtaking the slaves at wilksbarre ; but owing to tlie strong expression of feeling manifested by the people in their fa vor they were forced to beat a hasty retreat the constable was induced o fob low hem under the impression that they were horse-thieves but on learning otherwise he refused lo render any further co-operation â€” phila ledger once more : â€” at philadelphia on the 18th inst a large crowd of colored persons assem bled in front of the court house to await the decision of judge grier in the case of the ne gro man named henry garnet arrested under the fugitive law and claimed by mr thomas p jones of cecil county md after a patient examination of the case the judge decided that ihe claimant had failed lo make out his case and accordingly discharged the prisoner on coming out of the court house garnpt was received by his colored friends with joyous exultations bordering on a riot ; so much so hat he mayor begged them to desist they disobeyed his request when the police interfered and a violent collision en sued between the officers of the law and the negroes in ihe light one of the police had his finger nearly bitten off by a colored man finally the crowd was dispersed and three of the ringleaders were arrested and held to bail in one thousand dollars each to answer for a violation of the law a committee then proceeded lo canvass the city to get assistance in the publication of cer tain incendiary resolutions regarding the fugi tive slave law which the responsible papprs refuse lo publish considering ihem riotous in tendency and subversive of law and order the following we copy from the new york express : â€” " another case under the fug it ice laics â€” a southern man at pittsburg who came lo arrest a slave named jones who swore that the ne gro whom he pointed out had been his slave two years since but had run away who claim ed his delivery up lo him by ihe commission er was thwarled in his purpose under the law he got hold of the wrong man for all the old residents in pittsburg knew lhat jones had lived in that city for over twenty years the claimant was committed to prison for perjury j and jones went on his way rejoicing after laying in jail four days the claimant was re ! leased on 81000 hail we think it highly probable that these " old | residents in pittsburg are of ihe class whose i testimony can be bought very low and that the bona fide owner of the negro has been de frauded out of his right and incarcerated in jail besides so also in the philadelphia case probably " the claimant failed to make out his case he may thank his stars that he too was not committed for perjury as a warn ing to all persons in like cases offending the washington union says â€” " we confess we were grieved and surpris ed to read in a respectable ohio paper that the democratic members of congress elected from that state woold probably support the re j peal of the fugitive slave law we can hardly j permit ourselves to believe lhat it is possible ; j we fancv there must be some mistake on the subject the case at detroit of wbich we have here tofore given some account was finally settled | by the owner getting 300 after paying the i expenses of the suit this sum was perhaps balf the value of his property and it was j raised by subscription " not a real noisy aboli tionist subscribing a dollar the whig convention at ulica n y â€” a convention called solely because the former convention at syracuse had endorsed seward's course and for the purpose of repudiating thai j endorsement â€” met and adjourned without say j ing one word about ihe fugitive slave law j though it approved of the other compromise measures this omission is a fearful sign that the law cannot be sustained in that great state another of equally evil portent is the letter of mr hunt the candidate of that convention in which he declares that the law could not have been well considered and needs essential modification â€” a declaration at war with the well known fact that the bill was before con gress for months was fully discussed and ma ny votes taken on proposed amendments the conclusions to which we are forced by these and many other signs at the north con trary to our original and strongly cherished hope and belief are that the law cannot be sus j iained ; â€” lhat even if it be not repealed it j cannot be enforced in the few cases where the courts and officers will do their doty mobs black and white stand ready to defeat their action or to deter the owner from invoking it well what then is to be done ? we do not i hesitate to say lhat the union cannot stand '-, and ought not to stand if this the only one of , j the series of measures which is of any real '> value to the south is either repealed or nulli ! tied to say nothing of the baseness of al ! lowing a series of acts to be passed with ihe | understanding that they were each and all part of a compromise of conflicting claims and then i that the stronger party should stand to all that had been conceded to itself and repeal the only one it conceded lo the other parly â€” lo say no thing of this the south has a constitutional right to this law and to its faithful execution â€” a right which neither its honor nor its interest will permit ii to relinquish at any hazard even of disunion itself it is with great reluctance lhat we have ad mitted the above conclusions thpy are how ever forced upon us by the state of things at the north and it is our duty to let our readers at the south see as we see it what is going ' on there if southern papers have any leaders ! at the north we would add lhat it is due lo them to be warned ot the fatal tendency of their movements since the above was in type we are glad to i see that a movement is on foot in new york j to hold a great meeting of all classes and all â– parties to express the feeling of lhat city in favor of a faithful observance of the law this ! step is advocated by the express courier and i enquirer and mirror whig papers the jour 1 nal of commerce and herald locofoco and i is bitterly opposed by the tribune whig ab olitionist and the evening post locofoco : abolitionist which threatens those merchants who sign the call for the meeting wilh the loss of the custom of the free soil people of the north ! but the proposition meets with such general fkvor thai in the whole length of broad street only two persons refused lo sign it in exchange place only one and in pine street only two total jive in three business streets three more were met with in a portion of broadway which was canvassed by the same gentleman this is certainly gratifying but as to new york city we never had any doubt the peo pie of that city are too well informed ot the actual condition of things at the south to be humbugged by brawling fanatics they have too many personal friends at the south to al low themselves to be arrayed against us on so vital a point and their own interest the pros perity of their great city is too largely depen dent on continued friendly intercourse wilh the south to admit of a moment's doubt as to iheir course it is the interior of that state and nearly the whole of the other northern states that seem unsound and bent on forcing a re peal or nullification of the law and along with it a repeal of the union ! northern locofocos â€” the only true friends of the south â€” the following sy nopsis of recent demonstrations of locofoco sentiment at he north furnishes a singular commentary upon the praise which has been lavished upon the alleged loyalty of the north ern democracy il shows that however treach erous and disloyal are many northern whig treachery and disloyally are by no means con fined to lhat party but on the contrary they are vices equally fashionable if not more in vogue among northern democrats it shows also facts for which we have long contended lhat for the defeat of the abolitionists and for re spect to the consiifuiional rights of ihe south we must look exclusively to neither party but to the moderate men of all parties the new york post one of the leading or gans of the united democracy of that stale regretting lhat " the act of congress mutilat i ing new meiico aud offering texas ten mill ; ions is beyond the chance of repeal counsels the imposition of ihe wilmot proviso and says : " the laws organizing the territories of new mexico and utah are happily open to i amendment new mexico should be admitted i immediately as a slate wbich will put an end to agitation in that quarter the prohibition i of slavery in the territory of utah will quench a fire-brand which will never cease to blaze as , long as that question is undecided in addition to this evidence we quote from ! the address of a democratic leader who makes , the following urgent appeal whilst he gives an j historical statement no doubt perfectly new lo ! ; southern democrats mr tompkins loquitur i " are you prepared fellow democrats to ; show your disregard of truth honor and com mon humanity ? for did you not in 1848 pro claim that you would advocate the cause of 4 free-soil for free labor and freemen v will you now violate ihe sacred principle of truth j by action at variance wilh lhat assertion ?" we find next a nice account of a democratic j convention in wisconsin after nominating \ " a free-soil candidate for congress the eon vention passed a number of resolutions in fa , vor of free soil internal improvements land \ reform cheap postage homestead exemption free-lrade and direct taxation the conven tion also expressed itself in favor of thomas hart benton for the next presidency and in in opposition to the fugitive slave law add to his tbe secret nomination of martin j van buren for the presidency and the deter j mination ol all the recently elected locofoco | members of congress from ohio to repeal the fugitive slave law and one would think that unscrupulous as ihey generally are locofoco presses would cease their attempts to manu facture capital out of whig abolition sympa thies one would think that they would now at least follow the advice of the union and drop party warfare until the union is saved fayettevilie observer from the fayettecille observer look out for the scoundrel owing to the great extent of our territory and the sparseness of our population the most ordinary rogues are often able to impose suc cessfully on the communily but the plausible and accomplished seldom fail under any cir cumstances to practice successfully their dis honest arts one of the most specious and art ful of the profession has just been compelled to leave this place where he has been staying two weeks and deceiving many persons he calls himself lieut don carlos valencia of ihe 4th regiment lancers of puebla mexico claims to be son of col valencia and nephew of gen valencia of mexico he professes to have served through the whole of the last war and claims to have received several honorable wounds his appearance is very prepossess ing his carriage erect and military his dress outwardly neat his manners especially in the company of ladies gentle refined and insinua ting he is about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high has rather pale or dark complexion black hair and eyes good teeth small feet and hands and wore when here a moustache and small impe rial he speaks english fluently and with a foreign accent and is about 25 or 26 years old though he says he is only 21 he has three scars near and under right side of the ( chin which he says are bullet marks and a j bullet scar on the left thigh he seems to suf j ter from hemorrage of the lungs caused as he i said until detected by an unhealed wound in one of them â€” he also affects to be deranged ;â€¢ at times and counterfeits admirably the ravings i of insanity he also uses opium freely he i is remarkably fluent and ready in conversation â€¢ and quite interesting as a narrator of adven i tures he was fully identified just before he j left as the same person who as an exiled cu â€¢ ban insinuated himself into the confidence of some of the good people of newark del and l afterwards absconded wiih a watch and money j he is an exceedingly plausible and artful fel ! low and well fitted to impose on even the least i credulous he wore while here a pair of ! black pantaloons with a red and gold stripe on the outside of each leg let the public look ', out for him he was started to raleigh from here and probably go to charleston as he had i tickets lo that place editors of newspapers < will do well to introduce this enterprising gen tlemen to the public fayetteville by the above it will be seen that some mem bers of our community have been most decent ly humbugged we were at the market house one morning trying to buy a iripe or a shin of beef when an ancient carriage came along wilh two mules drawing it and a number of trunks be hind ; the whole looking like such a thing as a traveller might expect to meet on the " pam pas of south america inside were too la dies and two gentlemen tbe vehicle halted at the market bouse a few moments and the passengers were accosted by a reverend gen tleman well known for his urbanity all that was not very strange but during the day as we were pacing along the street we heard some urchins talking about " a live mexi can that was at mrs brown's hotel and soon af ter we discovered apparently a young spaniard ! with mustache and other fixings a-la-militarie and three very amiable citizens of our town in a very pleasant conversation playing the a greeable we passed on and said nothing sunday morning going to the post office we saw quite a bevy of the young " bloods about favetteville all gathered around the live mex ican and he spinning his yarns with great de liberation never wishing to thrust our bumble self in to tbe company of great ones â€” or as the vul gar about here say the big bugs â€” we did not dare approach him hut went up lo our of ! fice window and satisfied our curiosity with a peep it soon became apparent that the young man in moustaches was no bug eater as there was no one to let ihe people know how great a man he was he did not lei his extreme mod i esty at all interfere with the business of making i himself known : and it was soon noised over i the town lhat a man had arrived who was " some pumpkins â€” worth a million and a half of dollars â€” had fought his way through the whole of the mexican war and sought " the humble reputaiion even at the cannon's mouth he could beat othello all lo sma?h telling of his " hair breadth scapes in ihe imminent deadly breach â€” â€¢' the baffles seiges fortunes lhat he had passed he was a protege of gen scott also and had lived in his family since the war and our wonder-loving cits like the gentle desdemona " these things to hear would seri ously incline there was no one like don carlos merchants would leave their counting houses clerks their counters doctors ibeir pa tients lawyers iheir clients and militia majors their studies lo congregate and sil with him at the corner of ihe hole or gallant him lo see the arsenal c at last it become rumored bat the young gen tleman was in love with a young heiress on a visit to our town love soon cracked his brain and he was confined to bis bed the doctors were called in who examined his wounds and his other dangerous symptoms and pronounced him in a very precarious situation he would sometimes rave like a maniac and sometimes whine like a love-sick maiden every morning you could hear some one of the enraptured citizens enquiring â€” " how is the don this morning ?" oh says one who had set up all night with bim " he is very bad oft he was out of his bead all night last night yes thinks i and out of pocket too i guess i " well what does ihe doctor think 1 has he dressed his wound " no he wouldn't allow it to be dressed nor j would he take his medicine tlic doctor says : lie is very bad off " poor fellow does be still go on in that crazy way ?" " yes ; he is all the time talking like be was i in his regiment giving orders to bis men â€” then speaking to his superior officer â€” then he will draw his sword to fight a duel with somebody he thought insulted him he would rush at a i carpet bag and plunge his cane at it then ; be would call pedro and tell him to black his boots sometimes he would spit up blood and then go into spasms and the doctor would think he would die " poor fellow this game was played for a week and ' our hero visited a very amiable family one ! evening and was taken dick there there lay the strength of the game of course the j family taking his rank family and fortune into 1 consideration paid him every attention and as â– he grew worse he deemed it lo be prudent to | make a will in which he willed all his effects j to " his soul's adored at last on saturday night the bubble burst ! ed and very extensivelybespattered with its vile ! contents our hospitable friends who had been j so anxious lo sustain the reputation of fayette ville for hospitality and attention lo distin j guished strangers the above extract from the observer gives ' the denouementto this most ridiculous affair it was equal to the old play of " a bold stroke for a wife the don played the part of colonel feign â€¢ well " up to nature as shakespeare says â€” his motto was â€” " now fame title and fortune come in play a thirty thousand pound girl leads the way to crown the joke after the fellow wa9 ex i posed and while the duped ones were venting â€¢ their anathemas on his " devoted head he i was asked by a very venerable old gentleman i if he came to fayettevilie thinking the peopu i here were green the man sniggered in his sleeve and told ( them he should not have come had he not been invited we must however do our fellow citizens the i justice to say that others have been duped by j this millionaire as effectually as they were fay carolinian work for november in the south this is a busy month in all the cotton and sugar states as the laborors are 1 proverbially careless we bespeak most | earnestly the attention of masters and '- managers to keep a sharp lookout for fire j in no other way can you be insured a gainst the entire destruction of a whole ! crop use no other light about the gin bouse than a wire lamp have your gin ; provided with water boxes that prevent ', all danger from friction in a few years ! you will be able to buy gins that are su â€¢ perior to the whitney gin and entirely , free from danger of taking fire they are ; already invented cotton presses â€” have you ever thought that the presses now in general use are ; not what they should be ? there are bet ter ones look to it we can cite you to one planter col hampton of south carolina whose bales never need repress ing it would cost you no more to do them right in the first place than it does to make the miserable packages you now do then how much you would save cotton baskets â€” what are you going to do when all your basket timber is ex hausted as it soon will be â€” in fact is in '' some places ? will you send north for them well we can supply you but you had better plant and grow timber â€” ihe osier willow for instance look to it this month cotton seeds â€” do not neglect this all important matter look what the proutt and hogan seed has come to by careful se lection there is no need for you to pay a dime a seed to get a good article if you will only select it yourself a few years feeding slock pea fields â€” this is the month more than all others that cat , tie and hogs die from eating peas be careful and feed your hogs well with corn and salt slops before turning them in â€” j ' salt and feed your cattle well do not turn hungry cattle upon fresh pea vines if you have not hogs enough this year to make your meat look out now lor a sup ply before they are put up to fatten you can raise pork better than you can buy it with cotton fruit trees â€” do not forget that this is the best month in the year to order fruit frees do not try for a great assortment but just a few of the choicest kinds col carter and dr cloud of macon county ala have growing upon their farms a native winter apple that is perhaps supe rior to any other it is worthy of notice at the south it is probable lhat dr philips of hinds county miss also has it ; at any rate he has got the best assort ment of fruit trees in the south that we know any thing about â€” american agri ulturist speaking of fruit trees we would re mind farmers and others in this part of the country that chakles mock esq of davidson county has a very extensive and valuable variety which he sells on reasonable terms he has for many years been engaged in ihe nursery busi ness â€” takes great pride in it and has spared neither labor nor expense to pre pare himself to meet the demands of the public for fruit trees shrubbery and flow ers his post-office address isfairgrove davidson co n c pumping a lake dry dr j v c smith the editor of the bos ton medical surgical journal who is now on a visit to europe gives an interesting description in his editorial correspondence from holland of the manner in which the lake of haarlem is being drained by steam engines and its water sent to the sea : six miles from amsterdam is the in land lake of haarlem 21 miles long by 11 in width which three hundred years ago was found to he perceptibly increasing by shooting its waters further and further and covering up the land threatening the first commercial port of the realm with destruction by flowing in upon its bank various schemes at that remote epoch was devised by able counsellors to stay the threatening danger three dutch en gineers.of acknowledged ability proposed draining off the water first raising it by wind mills they are entitled lo remem brance from having suggested the plan adopted in 1839 for averting an impend ing calamity seven years since delay being no long er safe a canal was dug around the whole circumference of the lake averaging 200 feet in width by 10 deep three monster engines are housed on the sides of the lake some six or eight miles apart each moving eight monstrous pumps all the pistons are raised at once at every revo lution of the machinery raising l.'i.ooo gallons of water which is emptied into the canal whence it is hastened on by a fourth engine faster than it would otherwise move to the zuyder zee and thus it reach es the sea fifteen miles distant in april 1819 the pumps worked by three of the mightiest steam engines perhaps ever con structed were set in motion and up to this date july 25th have lowered the contents of the lake seven feet by next april it is anticipated that the bottom will be fair ly exposed and all the water conveyed away from this ancient basin all this is executed at the expense of government awful disclosures and sub ornation of perjury on saturday last some very alarming disclosures took place in reference to a concocted plan about to be carried into effect by firing a manufactory situated up town on which was an insurance effected to the amount of 8 lf>,000 : but in fact the stock on the premises would not amount to much over 8'i.0()0 the owner of the premises has heretofore borne an unex ceptionable character which gives the case considerable more importance it seems that as far as we are ahle to ascertain the proprietor of the factory af ter elfecting the insurance proposed to a certain man the plan of firing the premis es for which he was to have 81,00(1 to swear after he property was burned that the amount as represented on the policy of insurance was correct however it was necessary to have a second witness corroborative of the same facts and for that purpose or in order to obtain a wit ness suitable lo their wishes a bill of goods was purchased at a store in maid en lane and the clerk on calling up for the payment of said bill was exhibited the premises and finally the proposition was submitted to him telling him that in the event of a fire he would be wanted to swear that on that day he saw 8()0 bar rels of valuable material amounting to over and about the amount of insurance ; for which service he was o receive 2000 well but said the clerk there appears to be a number of families residing all around and lives may be lost when this inflammable stuff is in flames " no matter for that said ihe proprietor " so much the better suppose thirty or forty lives are lost why the public sympathy will be so great that they will lose all sight of the fire these last cool calculating remarks appeared to chill ihe clerk's veins with horror and after a short period of conversation on the malter the clerk left remarking that he would think of the pre position and let him know he did think of ihe infamous design but instead of en tering into the wicked compact he at once laid the whole facts before the insurance company who we understand are now in vestigating the whole matter the evi dence in the case has been placed before our energetic magistrates md should the testimony make out a case ol felony com ing within the meaning of the statute law a warrant will certainly be issued for the arrest of the guilty parlies â€” m iork herald